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well-motivated

adjective

  1. (of a person, intention, etc) have sufficient incentive, desire, or drive

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"The fact that we have happy, healthy, well-motivated, highly productive staff is what we should all be aspiring to."

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Lee was “well-intentioned and well-motivated by that,” Bouchard continued.

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They include well-established facts—such as the tendency for red dwarf stars to emit strong flares and other stellar outbursts that could strip planets of their atmospheres—in addition to well-motivated speculations, such as asteroid impacts upon a young planet needing to be in a Goldilocks-like state of neither too numerous to disrupt biogenesis nor too sparse to starve prebiotic chemistry of molecular precursors thought necessary for life’s origins.

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Compared with some ideas, boson stars “are very concrete models that are theoretically sound and well-motivated,” Cunha says.

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Many Russian units also have low morale, a depressed mood that contrasts sharply with Ukraine’s well-motivated forces.

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